Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! I am very thankful for my family and friends and spending quality time with them all. Our Thanksgiving was full of fun. The day before we spent the day making 4 pies to take along with us. We loaded up the car and drove to Belton to celebrate at my Aunts and Uncles house. The whole Blanton crew was there. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving lunch and ate way to much. That is what you are supposed to do on Thanksgiving. All the kids ran around crazy and wore themselves out. After lunch settled we moved right into dessert. Everyone said they loved the pies, hopefully they weren't just trying to be nice. That evening we headed down to the plaza to visit with some friends and watch the lights and firework show. It was great Josh and Lindsey have an apartment right on the plaza so we ate and stayed inside for a while, then walked down stood there for about a minute and then the count down began, lights came on, and off goes fireworks. After all the fun was over we walked right back up to the apartment and visited some more. It was great timing. We were very Thankful for Josh and Lindsey to invite all of their friends down for the evening. We had a great time together. Payton and Kobi had a good time too. The girls with Aunt KK and Amanda

Nana and the girls

Daddy's girl

Jessica Kobi

Our Family

The girls

holding hands

Dress up

They are so much fun to watch. The other night I was putting away Payton's laundry and she pulled out a dancing outfit that one of our neighbors gave us for playing dress up. She insisted on wearing it. "Put on dress, Please". She asked over and over while I was putting other clothes away. When I was finished I got her all dressed in it and she had to wear the hat too. She had this outfit on for 3 hours running all around and spinning in circles to watch to skirt move. She would twirl around until she was dizzy and fell over. She had so much fun. She is such a girly girl, she loves dressing up. I tried to video tap but she wouldn't perform when I was holding up the video camera so a couple of pictures will have to do.

I love Lady Bugs

We had a great fun filled day of Halloween on Saturday. We all had pumpkin shaped apple cidar pancakes for breakfast. Then we spent the later morning carving our pumpkin. Payton sat paying very close attention to her daddy carving her pumpkin for her. She didn't want any part of touching the pumpkin but wanted to sit close. That afternoon after nap time we got dressed in her lady bug costume. We ate dinner at our neighbors house, we all brought halloween themed food and ate before going trick-or-treating. The kids had a great time and then it was finally getting a little dark so we can start heading out to fill up their buckets. We went mainly up our main street by our house. That was enough for Payton and then we went up to the church for trunk-or-treat. Mema, Poppop, Tyler and the girls.

Hope everyone had a great Halloween!!

Treats as far as the eye can see

I spent most of Friday along with Payton's help making Halloween treats. We had a great time, she loves trying to help you mix anything you put in bowls. I had found some fun looking witches and Dracula's to make. We also made some pumpkin-doodle cookies. Everything turned out good and we took them to our friends house Friday night and shared with the neighbors on Saturday night before trick-or-treating. What a great day